RACINE - The Racine Unified School District will receive almost $400,000 to help its students with disabilities.

Through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's Keeping the Promise: High-Cost Education Aid program, Unified will get $389,869 in funding for students with severe or multiple disabilities, according to a press release.

Unified will receive more than other districts in the area. Kenosha Unified will get $136,778, the Burlington Area School District will receive $4,794 and Milwaukee Public Schools will get $54,807. Only the Madison Metropolitan School District and the Green Bay Area School District will get more money from the program than Racine, the release said.

The money reimburses school districts for costs incurred in the 2007-08 school year from educating students with disabilities.

The amount received by each school district or education agency is determined by looking at the costs of educating students with disabilities. Funding provided by IDEA flow-through funds, Medicaid and state special education categorical aid is first deducted from the district's cost of educating a student with a disability. After that deduction, if the cost exceeds $30,000 for a single student, the district is reimbursed for 90 percent of the cost of more than $30,000, the release said.

The Keeping the Promise program was started in 2003. Total funding this year will go to 111 schools and a few other education agencies in the state. The groups will split $5.4 million in total funding.